PennState Fined 60 Millions by NCAA for Sex Abuse
Penn State U. wass fined for its inaction relating to systemic, unchecked child abuse. The $60 million, a figure equal to the team’s annual revenue, “will be placed into an endowment for programs that work to prevent child sexual abuse and assist victims,” The New York Timesreports. Additionally, P.S.U. will retroactively forfeit a bunch of victories and will be banned from bowl play for four years. According to the N.C.A.A. president, the penalty—which Penn State’s administration just agreed to accept—is “greater than any other seen in N.C.A.A. history.”
The Times reports, the N.C.A.A. “stopped short of forcing the university to shut down the football team for a season or more, the so-called death penalty. Still, the penalties are serious enough that it is expected to take Penn State’s football program, one of the most successful in the country, years before it will be able to return to the sport’s top echelon.”
Former football coach Joe Paterno near Beaver Stadium on Sunday in State College, Pa., and took it to an undisclosed location.
Penn State will learned its fate at 8 this morning, and the NCAA will break new ground in the process.
There was no hearing before the infractions committee, no opportunity for Penn State to present its case.
Unusual misdeeds — probably the most despicable in college sports history — call for unprecedented measures.
The sex abuse crimes of former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, which according to a report by former FBI agent Louis Freeh were covered up for more than a decade by head coach Joe Paterno and university administrators, were shocking enough to make NCAA bypass regular procedures.
The 22-member Division I board of directors, university chancellors and presidents, gave Emmert the authority to act, and the punishment announced today is expected to deliver a resounding message.
An NCAA source told CBS on Sunday that the punitive measures are “unprecedented.”
The death penalty — shutting down the football program — was unlikely. It’s been applied only once in the past three decades, when Southern Methodist University’s program was shut down for two years in 1987 for repeated offenses.
But the behavior at Penn State is unlike anything the NCAA has addressed. Emmert said last week he had “never seen anything as egregious as this.”
Two weeks ago, the Freeh report concluded that Paterno and other officials had covered up Sandusky’s crimes to protect the football brand and the university’s image. In June, Sandusky was found guilty of 45 counts related to sexual abuse of boys over a 15-year period. According to the Freeh report, Sandusky’s behavior was known to Paterno and others for more than a decade.
Freeh was hired by Penn State’s board of trustees, and his eight-month inquiry produced a 267-page report that concluded, “The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized.”
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